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[G1 Android Development] B-Eazy:
You guys are being naive. HTC did not put a new special ROM or SPL on ur phone you did. They can probably fix your phone but they are not responsible for paying for R&D and tech suppport for something we did to our phones knowing (hopefully you knew) that it could possible damage your phone. I bricked my phone cuz a ROM i flash downgraded the radio. I didn't know the ROM would do that but I knew running the engineering SPL ran a risk of getting bricked. I took responsibility (somewhat :D) for bricking my phone... Call your provider and tell them the update bricked your phone. If you don't wanna do that i dont know what to tell you

As for HTC AND Google, they probably have the software drivers or other things necessary to reflash any phone thats not physically damaged but they are by no means obligated to share it with us. If they do that then that will encourage more people to mess with their phones and most likely destroy they're phones among other things..... That being said, might as well give them a call. Its worth a shot.

and FYI for anyone coming to this thread. NO RECOVER + NO BOOTLOADER =

BRICK

currently
[G1 Android Development] karan09:
Need root help stuck on G1 screen when trying to get recovery mode

when i try to go in recovery mode home +power	i m stuck on G1 screen after Step3: Protect your root”. every thing went fine it said now need to reboot the phone to apply the update file.

i was using root app

i m trying to apply update .zip but it dont show triangle with the ! inside it . it just stuck on G1 screen i pulled battery out and try again but same . then i just turn on phone it on . and phone is working fine i can make calls and receive calls i can do everything but . i cant get to recovery mode . i m on rc 29 now

how i can get to recovery mode

i was folloing this site

http://androidandme.com/2009/05/guid...stall-cupcake/

please help me

post reply here or

please email me : jaskaran.mangat@gmail.com
[G1 Android Development] funbacon:
Install update.zip again. pree ALT + L to view update process. You've just pull battery out when running update.
[G1 Android Development] B-Eazy:
wth? thats weird. u sure your home key still works? I suggest u download a terminal program and do a wipe. Do you adb?
[G1 Android Development] zippa713:
A black brick?

Everything was going good... I couldnt flashed the radio cuz it was unsigned, so I waited for tmob to send me the updates... annnyway... I got it updated to 2.22 from 1.22... so got the new radio... re-rooted it... updated the spl... H+B to reboot... rebooted and stuck on G1 screen of start up... pulled the battery, and nothing same stuff... Tried H+B= nothing... tried C+P= nothing... what to do next?
[G1 Android Development] Cuore_alfa:
Bricked! thanks for the infamous SPL
[G1 Android Development] shelay:
bricked G1 solution

i had the TYTN hermes a long time ago and i bricked it. i also had a bricked G1 thanks to the SPL. the solution to this is take out the battery, and put the phone in the drawer or a box. that should solve the problem. after a few months, am sure some1 wil come up with a solution. i have been a member of this site for a while now and i have never been let down. hope that solves ur problem. my G1 is sitting in me drawer now have a good rest. but unknown to it, salvation is coming and i will make it work its arse off by flashing the shait out of it once problem is solved.
[G1 Android Development] Cuore_alfa:
Can someone explain how the HTC G1 boot, if it possible to install a script in the microSD to force the phone to boot or to autoupdate or reflash or anything?

We need some expert with a Bricked phone to try find a solution. right now, T-mobile store are flooded with returns. Regards!
[G1 Android Development] xhoangx:
I don't know what you need to do next, but when you downgraded your ROM to root, I think it also downgraded the radio. This is what happened to me when I first rooted. You have to manually update the radio, then the SPL. You may have a brick.
[G1 Android Development] sirlantzz:
Linux Commands

There has to be a few commands out there that'll get u to the point you need to be at to mount the unit. Once that's done, we're home free. Will have to touch up on my Linux commands and prob some friends to see if this can be fixed. Until then, call'n CS to say, "You won't believe what happened to me while playing on my phone in the bathroom.... ~.O" lol

Power + Home = T-Mobile G1 Splash screen

Camera + Power = T-Mobile G1 Splash screen

Official B-R-I-C-K Yay me! :(
[G1 Android Development] lbf:
sirlantzz,

unfortunately, there's no way to fix it (even with linux) since the brick affects the main memory, which runs when you turn the g1 on, freezin it before load usb or memcard ;)
[G1 Android Development] chevycowboyusa:
I might have found a way to get to the recovery screen!

I found a trick to get to the recovery screen from stuck at the G1 screen!

Do the three finger salute. Press end (red button) + menu + call (green button)

Wait till the screen goes blank.

CONTINUE TO HOLD THESE BUTTONS!

Slide your finger quickly from the call button to the Home button. Release the menu button.

Hold for a few seconds and release. (home and end)

This will take you to the recovery screen!

Good luck, this works every time I correctly slide my finger to the home button.

Once you have done this you might be able to do something from here.... I don't have a bricked phone to play with.
[G1 Android Development] B-Eazy:
R u sure that works on an official brick? I swear I tried somethin like that.

Hope it does work....
[G1 Android Development] lbf:
of course this dont works... :)
[G1 Android Development] jugg2000:
I'm not sure if all hope is lost boss...

If you got the new radio on first, then flashed the new SPL then it should have not given you a problem, you should have done the following:

1. After you pulled the battery, pull the SDCARD.

2. After you pulled the SDCARD, put it in the SD Adapter, insert it into your computer, erase the update.zip (SPL renamed) and replace it with another update.zip file (ROM renamed).

3. THEN you pop the battery back in the phone and turn it on.

You should be able to go to recovery from this point on.

If I'm wrong, don't hold it against me.
[G1 Android Development] DemoShadow:
Confirmed. The "new" button combination does not work
[G1 Android Development] B-Eazy:
Thanks, that sounded way too easy and too much like getting into regualr recovery
[G1 Android Development] STP03bluesi:
Well I am that IDIOT tonight..

I tried to down grade following the DIY on how to root your phone..and i am getting

DREAIMG.nbh - FAIL

BOOTLOADER -

RECOVERY -

BOOT -

SPLASH1 -

SYSTEM -

USERDATA -

RADIO_V2 -

Update Terminate

UPDATE FAIL

Then i hit the "action" button and goes to RGBW screen with

DREA100 PVT 32B RUUNBH

HBOOT-0.95.000

CPLD-4

RADIO-2.22.19.26I

Sep 2 2008 (Red area)

Serial10 (In green area)

anyone can give me a idea on what to do that would be GREAT.

I have the G1 with a 4gb SD card.

STP03bluesi@gmail.com

Longboardhawk - AOL

Thanks
[G1 Android Development] STP03bluesi:
Update...I threw the recovery.img and the Hardspl (renamed Update on the SD)

Now have

DREAIMG.nbh - OK

BOOTLOADER - OK

RECOVERY - OK

BOOT - OK

SPLASH1 - OK

SYSTEM - OK

USERDATA - OK

RADIO_V2 - OK

Update Complete

UPDATE SUCCESS, press action key.

I have no F-in clue...wow...not my night. I have rooted a G1 before but never had any issues.
[G1 Android Development] STP03bluesi:
Final update...cant get Telnet to run...ill try it all again tomorrow.

Error on telnet

Error while connecting to server:

localhost/127.0.0.1:23 - connection

refused

then goes back to the screen where you click "Connect to server"

Error while receiving from server :null

About phone info

Kernel version

2.6.25-01843-gfea26b0

android-build@apa27 #6

Build number

kila-user 1.0 TC4-RC29 115247

ota-rel-keys.release-keys

any idea where to point me email or pm me. I will also check this thread tomorrow.

Thanks for all the help and the threads!!
[G1 Android Development] RueTheDay:
Open up Terminal Emulator and type:

su

telnetd &

Then go back to Telnet and try again.
[G1 Android Development] STP03bluesi:
no luck

su: Permission denied ---

EDIT

Got it to work. Removed and replaced the Hardspl & the recovery.img.

continueing with root.

If I have anymore issues Ill post up.

Thanks for all the help!
[G1 Android Development] :
I now have added just another brick on the wall of the infamous SPL :(

I first did JF. Great.

Then tried Dude, prefect.

I said i'll do JacHero.

Formated the SD, installed the new radio, then the SPL (i have a PVT board), but after that, the phone never went farther than the T-Mobile G1 Screen, didn't had the chance to put the CyanogenMod 3.6.

My guess? The radio did not install correctly...

Have tried whatever keystroke in found in here or in google. Can't get any bootload or console. Tried the NBHs, nothing.:(

While I wait for the real Hero to find the solution in here;), i've sent it to htc, to see if they have a trick.. Until then, my old nokia is coming out the comma.
[G1 Android Development] lbcoder:
You would think that by now people would know not to mess with that hacked SPL.... too dangerous, too little to gain (since you can always apps2sd a too-large image to make it fit).
[G1 Android Development] :
Well, they call it "new SPL" and it is part of the guide for hero with the line "[Q] Do i NEED the new Radio and SPL?

[A] Yes, you MUST have the new Radio AND SPL. :confused: You kinda have to follow every instruction to get this going.
[G1 Android Development] njuncos:
yes it definately sounds like the radio update did not install all the way...you usually have to reboot after initial install, and that is when it writes the radio image to the chip.

cuz with a PVT board, it should have gone very smooth if all instructions are followed correctly from what i have read.
[G1 Android Development] cl2eep:
Well, after rooting roughly 30 G1s, I finally, really, truely bricked one. I've had boot loops so many times that it barely even concerns me when it happens, and I've even been stuck at the G1 screen a number of times. Each time, however, I've always been able to get into at least the bootloader and reflash. This time, however it was a no go. I can't get it to be recognized on the computer, it won't go into recovery or bootloader, just sits. It was a fresh root, and I tried to install the new SPL, after installing Hard SPL and the new radio. I'm now kicking myself hard for that decision. I don't really see how this can be fixed, because there's no real way to access the phone now.
[G1 Android Development] theDante:
Ditto!! I've been flashing mine for months now with zero problems... but I just did it to my wife's G1... she is not happy. stuck at the G1 logo... home+back does nothing as well as home+camera... :mad:
[G1 Android Development] rigamrts:
just to let you guy know this guys been told this method don't work at all ignore him he'll only frustrate you with his constant prodding to do his method. i told him myself 2 weeks ago it didn't work.
[G1 Android Development] holmes901:
Does not load after G1 boot screen

My question...as I know that my phone is not briked I would have a problem that I need to address.

I am running the HERO theme and a custom clock as well as apps2sd. I had it running fine adding apps, and as a precaution loading apps2sd and clicking the move to sd button and it has worked out fine. Well I was working on something not phone related and by chance luck I hit the delvik cache button (sorry for spelling) and everything seemed fine took a while and I got a force closed but clicked wait and was still working.

Well after I decided to do the move to sd button and it restarted and boom once it gets to the G1 boot screen it blacks out and all. It doesnt load the boot image for the theme just goes black. Well long story short just need a solution to get my phone loading again.

Thanks to all that help/ or anything
[G1 Android Development] B-Eazy:
did you try booting holding home+power or camera+power?
[G1 Android Development] holmes901:
Well yeah and still nothing. But odd enough I gave it some time on and it has loaded fine with no problems after I rebooted phone and it is back to normal now so I am good to go thanks.
[G1 Android Development] RegulatorG1:
was running HSPL10.95.3000 and decided to get the new spl. well updated it on my sd care and flashed it. stuck on g1 screen and no go. it can go back to the recovery screen but after trying to do a restore it just bootloops and doesn't go anywhere. .. .. sob
[G1 Android Development] henrylim:
Just curious on the bricked incidents. Would wiping after installing the Radio and before installing SPL help in reducing bricking?

As a precautionary measure, I did that, and apparently some others in this forum did that, and at least we are successful.
[G1 Android Development] lbcoder:
Wiping won't help since it doesn't mess with the /data partition until AFTER SPL takes over. Since the problem is in IPL-->SPL transition, /data is irrelevant.

What DOES help is to actually go in and VERIFY that the IPL has been properly/successfully written.

Still though, its not worth the risk. I suspect that there may actually be something BROKEN with the hacked SPL -- there is still something of a pattern of randomness to the incidence of bricking.
[G1 Android Development] B-Eazy:
Wipe my friend. if that doesn't work then post again. guys gotta read the FAQs

Guess this is won't hurt but I don't think it actually help
[G1 Android Development] RegulatorG1:
bought me a card reader, installed cms new rom. went to recovery > flashed rom and everythings ok now.

i later found out how i could have installed the rom w/o a card reader :)

G1 is ALIVE!
[G1 Android Development] wddglr:
What you encountered was what i like to call a "lite brick" where all you have to do is reflash the custom ROM.

anyways.. PARTAAAYYY!!! :)
[G1 Android Development] shelay:
my solution to bricked G1 via SPL

this is just an update really. i bricked my G1 thanks to SPL. anyway, i got it fixed through T-mobile. i called CS, cooked up a story about how the G1's gran-parents died, how its Uncle never went to school and then finally, how its, uncle's sister's brother's nephew's aunt's great granpa died. after happily confusing the CSA, which took me like 10secs, my G1 got booked in for repairs. went to a PROPER T-Mobile shop in london, drop it off.was even offered a cheap loan handset, to which i said no thanks. after 6days to be precise,i got a call and text saying my fone was fixed and ready to be picked up. did not paya single dime/penny! the repair report says i got a new handset basically. they took out my old case and put it on a new phone really.so if u are in the UK and u have a bricked phone, chances are u can get it fixed via your local T-mobile shop.! hope that helps.
[G1 Android Development] bigdookie:
Bricked? Failed ota-radio-2_22_19_26I update

After updating my SPL & radio (files found here:http://code.google.com/p/sapphire-port-dream/), i continue to update the radio, now my g1 is stuck at the g1 screen. What to do?

I was following the steps here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=533731

I got as far as installing cyanogen, then i proceeded to installing the new radio and spl.

yes i did wipe n retry
[G1 Android Development] B-Eazy:
can you get into recovery or bootloader??
[G1 Android Development] wddglr:
well apparently you flashed SPL then radio?
[G1 Android Development] Cuore_alfa:
I just remplace the PCBA board :D my HTC G1 is running again, now i have to unluck the SIM IMEI no. 358279013095573 anyone?
[G1 Android Development] RueTheDay:
Don't post your IMEI on an internet forum.
[G1 Android Development] bleedtheskyjd:
is my phone bricked?

I had thought there was no hope maybe I'm wrong. I was trying to flash jachero rom. I already had the new radio. Was flashing the new spl, the boom I'm stuck at the tmo g1 boot loop. I can not get to boot loader camera and power. Nor can I get to the home+power screen. No commands work. Any thoughts?
[G1 Android Development] :
So you had the new Radio, then flashed the SPL? Did you flash a ROM before jac hero? I can only assume your device was non PVT.

@Cuore_alfa It is not a good idea to post your IMEI, so I'd edit that post if I was you. I also think it's highly unlikely that someone will give you an unlock code...
[G1 Android Development] Shaquiel Harris:
i Just made a post on how to update to Haykuro's spl. ive done this too many times to count.

Please Read guys before flashing it. may help you from bricking :)
[G1 Android Development] Obs:
So here's what I got. I have a PVT board, i basically followed the root guide found here. I got up to the part where it came time to install the new radio and SPL from haykuro. So I installed the radio first. Rebooted into fastboot just to verify that I was runing 26i. I was then i flashed the SPL and now I cant get past the G1 screen, and it's not even seen as a device. Am I pretty much unrecoverable?
[G1 Android Development] prettyboy85712:
Reboot into recovery and flash your rom.
[G1 Android Development] Obs:
My bad, I should have qualified it with I can't get into fastboot or recovery
[G1 Android Development] Kryptyx:
Well, I think I bricked my phone. I was in the process of getting it ready for the latest Hero ROM, and something went wrong.

First step I did was to get Cyanogen's 1.4 recovery image installed, that worked fine.

Next step was to get the multi-partitions installed, again no issues however I setup ext4.

Then I got the Haykuro's latest radio and SPL, both updates ran fine.

This is when I realized that I needed ext3 not 4, so I figured ok thats easy enough to solve, I unplugged the USB and reboot the phone. I got a windows error when I unplugged it saying that it failed to write something... which was odd because I let it sit for a while after moving the next update.zip over (Hero update). I then proceeded to reformat the SD card's 2nd and 3rd partition over again just like the steps said. When I went to load my phone it failed too boot (stuck on the G1 logo).

So I reboot the phone in recovery and performed a wipe, still no luck. I hooked up the USB and went to look at ADB logcat, I got an error when I connected the USB, it said the device failed although logcat still connected. Logcat reports "- exec '/system/bin/sh' failed: No such file or directory (2) -".

I tried reformatting the sdcard, and using adb push to move an update.zip over to the phone from my PC... when I do that it tells me the filesystem is read only, so I went back and performed mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system I get an error, invalid argument.

$mount shows the follow:

rootfs on /type rootfs (rw)
tmpfs on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=600)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
/dev/block/mtdblock4 on /cache type yaffs2 (rw)

So to sum this up, I have a blank SD card and no way of writing to it... ADB will not work but I do have recovery console... Any help would be greatly appreciated.
[G1 Android Development] xhoangx:
If you have cm recovery, try going to the console and do ums_enable, it should mount the card and you should see it on your pc. When done, do a ums_disable. I haven't tried it before but it is supposed to be in Cyanogen's recovery.
[G1 Android Development] Kryptyx:
Worked perfect, I was able to put Cyanogen's ROM on it and update it.

Thanks a ton!
[G1 Android Development] kunsjoi:
Stuck in blue light mode

So I own an Android Dev phone. Basically I still haven't put any custom ROM or somesuch on the phone. Yesterday I tried formating the SD card (in preparation for loading a custom ROM), but that didn't work out well.

I shut down the phone and restarted, and now it's stuck in the blue LED mode described by some people here in the forum.

I've tried doing hard reset, power + camera button key combination etc and nothing works. I've even pulled out and put in the battery numerous times but the phone is still stuck in blue LED mode.

I've tried starting the phone with/without SD card, SIM card etc and still the same error.

Does anyone know what could have gone wrong? and How to fix it?

Kindly help!!
[G1 Android Development] B-Eazy:
I'm not sure what is wrong but what exactly happens when you boot your phone without pressing anything? Do you see any screens or does it go straight to blue light?
[G1 Android Development] Deuces:
make sure the trackball button isnt stuck down for some reason
[G1 Android Development] kunsjoi:
I just see a blank screen with a constant blue indicator on the top. I've tried pretty much everything that has been suggested on forums regarding the blue LED issue and I still face the same issue.

So during the numerous tries of removing the battery and re-inserting after some time, once the phone did work -- booted fine, I was able to access my applications etc everything. But after I shut it down, and restarted same thing again happened -- blue LED indicator. And since then the phone hasn't started once. Not sure what's going on?

I also tested the trackball and it is not stuck down. I'm completely out of ideas. I have barely used this phone in last 3 weeks, let aside installing any custom ROMs or somesuch, and the phone already seems to be in brick mode..

Has anyone run into this issue before, and resolved it successfully? Kindly help!! I would love to use the phone, install custom ROMs, do all the testing etc..
[G1 Android Development] Seoulboy1:
It feels great to read this thread every now and then to make yourself feel a little better.

Every time i read i flashed spl then radio and now i'm looping, it makes me chuckle a little and brings my mood up.

I know it's not nice to laugh at the expense of other people misery, but I not gonna lie. I'm subscribed and it's better than FML.

If anything I think it's a only form of contribution to the community that these members probably would have ever made, so I'm gonna laugh it up.

I hope I don't ever brick my phone. Which I won't because I'm hot and your not.
[G1 Android Development] lbcoder:
That is most certainly a stuck trackball. Even if the trackball bounces back up, the contact is made which means it is stuck. Press it a whole bunch of times, roll it while pressed, and cross your fingers that you can get it to pop.
[G1 Android Development] kunsjoi:
I've tried everything possible with trackball. Still the same issue of blue LED. The trackball doesn't feel it's stuck, it moves pretty smoothly and works well. Anyways would opening the phone and trying to fiddle with the trackball help? What do you folks think? I think I have no option left unless someone has a better idea about the trackball..
[G1 Android Development] lbcoder:
Seems most likely to me that the button inside the trackball is broken.

RIM uses the same trackball:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00136GT0U/ref=dp_olp_new?ie=UTF8&condition=new

http://www.intomobile.com/2009/03/04/more-blackberry-trackball-colors-available.html

If you look at the pictures, you can see that it comes apart not to bad. You might be able to repair it rather than just replacing it.
[G1 Android Development] kunsjoi:
Thanks!! I'll try repairing G1's trackball and update u guys as to how it goes. Thanks for all the help. U guys rock!
[G1 Android Development] turboyo:
So Im possibly bricked.. im on cyanogens latest recovery .. I was partioning the sd from the console. something happened, it got all messed up it would not let me quit or go back to recovery :[ I didnt know what to do, it wouldnt type anything so I pulled the battery (actually removed back cover and it flew off, I was still contemplating) anyways phone will go into recovery and thats about it.. this happen all within my first hour of being rooted.. the memory card is defintely a gonner it reads 0 on my reader i dont caree.. anyways anything else I can try and do to get this thing back to life :[ I really hope so.. already tried a wipe